24
Dec
the old dividing lines between television, radio, Web and print disappear within the four corners of a tablet
Convergence oracles have been preaching the gospel for the past 2 decades, the era of the tablet has finally made it a reality. Hat tip to David Carr for a nice compact sum-up !
Content has a price tag, which is reassuring, but the old dividing lines between television, radio, Web and print disappear within the four corners of a tablet. That means, for instance, that CNBC and The Wall Street Journal are not in different businesses anymore, and in fact The Journal is adding hours of live video with each passing month. The BBC and Al Jazeera are no longer regional curios, they’re here. Every cable channel with two nickels and more than a few digital enterprises are financing the kind of narrative television that used to be available only at a certain time on a certain network.
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